So work on the iPhone driver has been stalled a bit. I took a serious look at getting around the SSL encryption but wasn’t able to easily bypass it. Basically the next stage involves determining what is transmitted across the SSL connection that iTunes and the iPhone create. Until that is accomplished no progress can be made on an iPhone driver for Linux.
I have a couple ideas left to try but I am not hopeful about their success. However in the mean time a few others have stepped forward and offered to help in the development. They are attempting to get the information in other ways so I am hopeful that someone will find out what exactly is going on. Once we get passed this stage we can proceed to the interesting part of the project.
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The last few weeks have been busy at work. There is always more stuff to get done then can be done but we have been coming pretty close to meeting our goals. Additionally the process changes that I helped shape/put in place are starting to pay off which feels good. We also have a pretty interesting project coming up in a couple of weeks that will push our technology to its limits (which is exciting to see). Finally, we are going to be on NPR in the coming week. I am not sure in what format or show but I’ll post about it when I know more.
Today
And one last thing, today I went on a bike ride with Zach through Golden Gate park over to Rt.1. All I can say is wow, it was a truly awesome day for cycling and I really do love being by the ocean.
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Btw. did you have luck connecting Linux to iPhone via Bluetooth and GPRS? I would like to use iPhone as a GPRS device for my computer…
You can use GPRS if you hack your iphone.
http://www.hackszine.com/blog/archive/2007/07/iphone_tether_enable_edge_wire.html
Hey, you should check out iPHUX! It’s a program for linux that can get photos, add/remove ringtones, and add/remove mp3s! It’s currently in beta testing, and more features are being added. Check it out!
Sorry, url is http://www.ratedo.com/iphux
Hi.
Great work.
I think the barry project could help. to you.
Check:
http://netdirect.ca/software/packages/barry/
Is a open source project. It lets synchronize a blackberry from Linux box.
Also it lets to charge you blackberry (the berry_charge doesn’t work for BlackBerry Pearl 8100 for example, but the bcharge tool works fine).
May be could help you.
Regards.
hi,
i’m not a C programmer (yet) but it seems to me all you guys would be able to come up with a way to spoof the ssh connection. build an ssh server and client that communicate the same way as real ssh but without the encryption, then replace the ssh binaries and watch what the iphone says to the computer with the unencrypted link. what do you think about that?
I was going to give you a link to iFuse but I see now that it’s on the same domain so you’re involved in this.
Just installed it works out of the box with my ipod Touch Firmware 2.0
Congrats to all of you who worked on this. I wish this project had more spotlight on it it’s truly unique.